Improvement in cultivator-teeth



J. S. HONEY.

Cultivator-Teeth.

No. 6,336. Patented Apr. 17. 1849.

MIL PHDTO-LITHO. CO. NM (DSBORNE'S PROCESS) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH S. HONEY, OF HARTFORD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTlVATOR-TEETH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 6,336, dated April 17, 1849.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. HONEY, of Hartford, Trumbull count-y, Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Plate for Cultivators, of which the following is intended to be a full and exact description.

It is a selfsharpening, iron, fonrpointed plate, of which the accompanying figures, Nos.

1 and 2 are a representation, No. 1 being a enter the holes I) and c ofNo. 1, which, together with the screw, keep the plate fast. "When by use thelower point has become dull the plate may be unscrewed from the bed and turned one-half round and fastened again by the screw, the dulled point being uppermost. When the second point has become dull the plate may be taken off, turned one-quarter round, and

then reversed-that is, the under side becomes the front side, and a third point is presented to the earth, and when that by use is becoming dull the other two which have been used will wear sharp by being inverted, this bringing the other side onto the bottom of the furrow, similarly to a selfsharpening plowshare, and will be ready to be used again bythe time the fourth point has become dull.

No. 5 is a cultivator with the three plates attached. The size of the plates is immaterial; but I prefer them to be eight inches across. Three will then turn over a strip of land two feet wide.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The self-sharpening four-pointed plate for a cultivator, with its iron bed, each of the four to be used successively; but when two have been used the plate is to be turned over, bottom side tip-that is, the rear made frontin order to use the other two.

JOSEPH S.HONEY.

In presence of- TRUMAN PARKS, BENJAMIN FENN. 

